By WMBD-TV BLOOMINGTON – A local pizza maker raked high in the International Pizza Expo 2024 competition on March 20 in Las Vegas. According to a news release from Pizza Payaa, its owner, Adam Elpayaa, competed against 500 other pizza makers around the world and ranked 9th for Detroit-style pizza and 14th overall for pan pizza. The pizza he made was…… MORE
Bloomington City Manager Tim Gleason has made it official and will be leaving his post to become the next city manger in Decatur.… MORE
Paramedic-level emergency medical care is now available from not just ambulances, but from all front-line fire engines in the Town of Normal. … MORE
If anybody did not smell a rat at the Illinois Prisoner Review Board, Illinois Senate Republicans say, last month’s death of an eleven-year-old boy – allegedly at the hands of a man the PRB released a day before – should leave no doubt.… MORE
Illinois State Police have responded to a rollover crash on eastbound Interstate 74 near mile marker 126 in McLean County.… MORE
Blue and silver ribbons dot the lawn of a Springfield hospital to commemorate Child Abuse Prevention Month.… MORE
Illinois State University plans to update Dough Collins Court at CEFCU Arena.… MORE
Local police want to discover why a large fish kill stretched 20 miles in Livingston County.… MORE
By WMBD-TV BLOOMINGTON – A replica of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier will be featured at the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution convention in Bloomington later this month. Debra Coe, the state’s honorary DAR regent and the head of the Illinois State Office Club, said the public can come to view the…… MORE
By WMBD-TV NORMAL – Alan Beaman was scheduled for a civil trial later this month against the town of Normal, but a $5.4 million settlement has ended the trial before it even started. On Monday, the town’s council unanimously voted to approve the multi-million settlement for Beaman. Beaman was convicted of murder in 1995, but…… MORE
By Mike Matejka Because of COVID, there is no Labor Day Parade this year. It’s always a great event for our everyday workers to march proudly down the street and enjoys the festive crowd. If there had been a parade, this year’s Labor Day theme was to be “150 years of struggle: your right to vote.” …
By Mike Matejka As President Donald Trump threatens to send federal marshals into Chicago, over the objections of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, recall another Illinois Governor who protested the incursion of armed federal personnel into the city. Those federal troops, rather than calming, escalated the situation, leading to deaths and violence. Illinois poet Vachel Lindsay…
By Mike Matejka Our nation is at a unique watershed in human relations. African-Americans have been killed too many times in the past before George Floyd, but the response to this man’s death is international and all-encompassing. I was a grade-schooler during the Civil Rights 1960s. I watched Birmingham demonstrators hosed and the Selma – Montgomery…
Looking around our community, when we say employer, most will respond to State Farm, Country, or Illinois State University. We too often forget those who are building our roads, serving our food, or our public employees. COVID-19 has made us more aware of the risk. Going to work every day for some people means…